Epes Sargent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

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